Trimming the Trees

We have seen folks out putting up Christmas decorations, but we did another type of tree trimming today: whacking errant branches off our fruit trees, especially the ones encroaching on our neighbors' properties. We had our lopper and one we borrowed from Steve, so we were both whacking away. Then of course we had to drag all the branches out to the curb to be picked up. That was definitely more physical exertion than my old body is used to, so I was pretty well tuckered out.

Jan heard from our friend Jean in Indianapolis, who has injured her ankle. We were hoping she would still be able to join us in the Valley, but she got some bad news from the second opinion doctor: her bones are not knitting, so she'll have to do some at-home bone stimulation for three months, to see if that will encourage the bones to knit properly. The bottom line is that she will not be coming south this year. We'll definitely miss her and hope her bones heal well. Meanwhile she'd like to find someone to take over her seasonal rental just for this year, since she hopes to come back to it next fall. 

We did get it together to go to Joe Saltel's C-1 dance, where we were couple number 12--the people everyone loves to see, since we made the third square. We took along some info about Jean's rental, which Joe announced. He will spread the word, and we hope someone will be found to rent the place.

Ken's replacement phone arrived, after some anxiety caused by Verizon's having left our lot number off the Fedex delivery address. Fortunately, Mickey in the office was able to sign for the package (though she hadn't thought that Fedex or UPS was at all likely to stop in the office, so we were lucky).